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lapis heath
Your question doesn't make much sense. You just need to learn conjugations and train, can you be more precise?
unborn swallow
Do you want to learn how to conjugate a specific tense (present, imperfect, perfect, etc) or how to conjugate in general?
gloomy shale
Probably the same way as any other human being
unborn swallow
Basically, conjugation describes how a verb changes according to person, number, and tense; there's two more (mood and voice) but these are the basics. English does the same thing, it's just invisible. The sentence, 'He holds' and 'We held' are two forms of conjugation:
–> He holds = the verb 'to hold' conjugated in the third person (he/she/it/they), singular (he/she), and present indicative
–> We held = the verb 'to hold' conjugated in the first person (I/we), plural (we), and simple past indicative
Okay, so that's the logic of conjugation. Now, how do we conjugate? Every verb in French comes with two things: a stem and a conjugation ending. Let's take three verbs: parler, finir, and rendre.
These three verbs are in the infinitive form, the basic and not-yet-conjugated form of a verb. The endings are generally the last two letters in the infinitive, so that's « -er, -ir, -re ». I say generally because the second and third groups (-ir and -re) have subpatterns. It's these endings that change, that's the key bit, and each ending has their own pattern. The easiest one is -er, whose present indicative endings are: « -e, -es, -e, -ons, -ez, -ent ».
As an example, let's conjugate « parler » in the present indicative:
« Je parle, tu parles, il parle, nous parlons, vous parlez, ils parlent ».
As you can see, conjugation generally changes the ending according to person, number, and tense. Let's do it for each entry. Since they're all in the present indicative, I won't bother with tense information:
–> je parle = the verb « parler » conjugated in the first person (je/nous), singular (je)
–> tu parles = the verb « parler » conjugated in the second person (tu/vous), singular (tu)
–> il parle = the verb « parler » conjugated in the third person (il/elle/on/ils/elles), singular (il/elle/on)
–> nous parlons = the verb « parler » conjugated in the first person (je/nous), plural (nous)
–> vous parlez = the verb « parler » conjugated in the second person (tu/vous), plural (vous)
–> ils parlent = the verb « parler » conjugated in the third person (il/elle/on/ils/elles), plural (ils/elles)
Notice how the subject before the verb matches up with the person information? That's how you know you conjugated correctly. For example, « Il parlons » would be wrong because the subject is singular third person « il » but the verb is plural first person « parlons ».
For practice, you can try conjugating: (1) terminer in the first person singular and third person plural, (2) penser in the second person singular and the third person singular, and (3) avancer in the second person plural.
Answer keys [Do not press on the black parts].
(1) ||« je termine||, ||ils terminent »||
(2) ||« tu penses||, ||il pense »||
(3) ||« vous avancez »||
As you can notice, the stems don't change when you're conjugating when you're conjugating -er. With the other two groups, -ir and -re, these do change stems [note 1]. The endings are such: « -is, -is, -it, -ons, -ez, -ent », but for most -ir verbs, the plural stems are different from the singular stems by the addition of the infix -ss-. Let me show you what I mean by conjugating « finir »:
« je finis, tu finis, il finit, nous finissons, vous finissez, nous finissent »
As you can see, the singular stems are « fin- » but the plural stems are « finiss- ». This happens with a majority of -ir verbs like for example « abasourdir, bâtir, grandir », etc:
« j'abasourdis … nous abarsourdissons, je bâtis … nous bâtissons, je grandis … nous grandissons ».
Some verbs don't observe this rule, we call them irregular -ir verbs, and they're about 60, all of which you can see here. This is also where we start subpatterns but -ir has a few of them like -oir (voir, devoir, apercevoir), -enir (venir, tenir), etc.
Examples are « partir, voir, venir », etc:
« je pars … nous partons (not *nous partissons), je vois … nous voyons (not *nous voissons), je viens … nous venons (not *nous venissons) ».
[note 1] Some conjugation guides say that it's really the endings that get the -ss- infix so their table is more like « -is, -is, -it, -issons, -issez, -issent », but I'd argue it's a lot more useful especially when you're in the other tenses like the imperfect indicative and the subjunctive present.
For -re, that's honestly a wild beast because it comprises several subpatterns:
(1) rendre (rend + -s, -s, -(), -ons, -ez, -ent): most verbs like « confondre, attendre, défendre, répondre »
–> je rends, tu rends, il rend, nous rendons, vous rendez, ils rendent
(2) conduire (stem change => sing. condu + -is, -is, -it | plu. conduis -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « cuire, nuire, lire »
–> je conduis, tu conduis, il conduit, nous conduisons, vous conduisez, ils conduisent
(3) atteindre (stem change => sing. atte + -ins, -ins, -int | plu. atteign -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « peindre, craindre, plaindre »
–> j'atteins, tu atteins, il atteint, nous atteignons, vous atteignez, ils atteignent
Some subpatterns relate to individual verbs. Basically they're suffixed verbs like « rejoindre » is « re + joindre ».
(4) écrire and friends (stem change => sing. écr + -is, -is, -it | plu. écriv -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « décrire, transcrire, inscrire »
–> j'écris, tu écris, il écrit, nous écrivons, vous écrivez, ils écrivent
(5) prendre and friends (stem change => sing. prend + -s, -s, -() | plu. pren + -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « comprendre, apprendre, surprendre »
–> je prends, tu prends, il prend, nous prenons, vous prenez, ils prennent
(6) mettre and friends (stem change => sing. met + -s, -s, -() | plu. mett + -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « commettre, sousmettre, battre »
–> je mets, tu mets, il met, nous mettons, vous mettez, ils mettent
(7) connaître and friends (stem change => sing. conna + -is, -is, -it | plu. connaiss -ons, -ez, -ent): verbs like « paraître, disparaître, méconnaître »
–> je connais, tu connais, il connait, nous connaissons, vous connaissez, ils connaissent
… and more. Refer to this article for more.
This just covers the present indicative but that's the basic rule: stem + ending.
In the imperfect, simple future, conditional present, and subjunctive present where the conjugation is simple – just involving one verb like « je parle » instead of two verbs like « j'ai parlé » where it's avoir + parler – they have different stems. The imperfect and subjunctive stems are derived from the plural stems of the present while the future and conditional stems are derived from the infinitive.
you better see this OP I put an hour of my time typing and formatting that
lapis heath
oh wow
unborn swallow
oh wow
Imagine s'il voit ces messages-là quelques jours plus tard et qu'il me répond qu'avec « ok »
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gentle meadow
@cursive cradle i did IB french
idk if you use this already but this is a useful website https://www.wordreference.com/ click french conjugations
you said pre IB idk if we're both thinking of the same IB
cursive cradle
Pre ib meaning core French in grade 9
I have already used this
Is there any way you can think of to help me get tutored in a way without a tutor?
gentle meadow
Pre ib meaning core French in grade 9
I haven't heard of this sorry...
gentle meadow
Is there any way you can think of to help me get tutored in a way without a tuto...
Do you not have extra suport from your French teacher/tutoring at your school?
gentle meadow
Your french teacher wouldn't want to?
I see...
Sorry I can't really think of how to help with that...
cursive cradle
It’s Alr do you live in Canada btw
gentle meadow
Nope I'm in south east asia
cursive cradle
Oh
gentle meadow
Learnt french at school for igcse and ib
thats why i thought you prolly be doing the same
cursive cradle
I go to isb
cursive cradle
Brunei
gentle meadow
ohH
cursive cradle
International school of Brunei
gentle meadow
ahh i see i see yeah i understand where you coming from in terms of finance
its very expensive going to an international school for me too
cursive cradle
Yea I get it
gentle meadow
cant afford extra tutoring or cirricular
cursive cradle
Well thanks anyways
gentle meadow
just let me know if anything lol
do you follow the gcse system too for grade 9?
its been 3 years since i graduated so im rusty in french but will try
unborn swallow
mate I wrote out a tonne of verb conjugation, the least you can do is reply to them…